Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 19 43
Rank change year-on-year -37 +24 +4
Permanent jobs citing Docker 9 60 24
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.16% 9.42% 4.01%
As % of the System Software category 14.75% 58.25% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 60 18
10th Percentile £54,055 £23,750 £30,125
25th Percentile £61,496 £31,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £32,500 £57,333
Median % change year-on-year +115.63% -43.31% -4.45%
75th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile - - £78,750
Wales median annual salary £67,539 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +107.81% -35.00% -16.67%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 61 103 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.83% 16.17% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 47 82 41
10th Percentile £28,000 £23,750 £31,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.38% -35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £51,150 £40,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +27.88% -9.09% -2.22%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -20 7 £73,801 +127.08% 23
Bridgend - 2 £59,064 -
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) dbt
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) PaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Pulumi
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (22.22%) Sentry
6 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) git-flow
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) Locust
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Django
2 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) Jest
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (66.67%) Observability
5 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
7 2 (22.22%) FinOps
7 2 (22.22%) Microservices
7 2 (22.22%) Migration
7 2 (22.22%) Open Source
7 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
8 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft